Journal Club of Condensed Matter Physics

This journal club originally started out as the “Journal Club of Topological Materials.” The initial goal of this journal club was to keep up with the fascinating and continually expanding field of topological materials. Eventually the scope of the journal club was expanded to discuss topics like many-body entanglement, superconductivity, heavy fermion materials, etc. with the hope of developing a broader physics background that might be useful in studying the role of topology in condensed matter physics.

The following table lists the topics we have discussed so far. Some of the links directly take you to the respective journal article abstract page and the rest link you to the page containing a brief summary of the journal club meeting as well as the slides or lecture notes used by the presenter.

Date

Topic

Presenter

2015-06-02

Altland and Zirnbauer classification of random matrices

Min-Feng Tu

2015-05-26

Universal dynamics and renormalization in many body localized systems

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee

2015-05-19

Theory of the many-body localization transition in one dimensional systems

Christopher White

2015-05-12

Kitaev’s Quantum Double Model/String nets

Sujeet Shukla

2015-05-05

Topological polaritons

Karthik Seetharam

2015-04-28

Topological phases in Helium liquids

Tejas Deshpande

2015-04-21

Topological phases in cold atomic gases: simulating condensed matter

Tejas Deshpande

2015-04-14

Introduction to ultracold atoms – Part 4

Tejas Deshpande

2015-04-07

Introduction to ultracold atoms – Part 3

Tejas Deshpande

March meeting + Spring break

2015-02-10

Introduction to ultracold atoms – Part 2

Joseph Redford

2015-02-03

Introduction to ultracold atoms – Part 1

Bassam Helou

2015-01-27

Amplitude/Higgs Modes in Condensed Matter Physics

Cheng-Ju (Jacob) Lin

2015-01-13

Introduction to frustrated magnetism

Scott Geraedts

2014-11-25

Chiral Luttinger liquids edge states in the FQHE

Shu-Ping Lee

2014-11-18

Multicomponent FQHE

Tejas Deshpande

2014-11-11

Introduction to even-denominator FQHE: composite fermions

Tejas Deshpande

2014-11-04

Introduction to Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA)

Matt Fishman

2014-10-28

An Introduction to Topological Color Codes

Aleksander Kubica

2014-10-21

High-Tc superconductors: stripe picture – Part 2

Min-Feng Tu

2014-10-14

High-Tc superconductors: stripe picture – Part 1

Min-Feng Tu

2014-10-07

Review of SPT phases: Fermions

Scott Geraedts

2014-09-30

Review of SPT phases: Bosons

Scott Geraedts

2014-06-24

Many-body localization (MBL)

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee

2014-06-17

Single-particle Anderson localization

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee

2014-06-02

Introduction to group cohomology classification of SPT phases

Sujeet Shukla

2014-05-27

DMRG – Part 2

Scott Geraedts

2014-05-20

DMRG – Part 1

Matt Fishman

2014-05-13

Ising CFT

David Aasen

2014-05-06

Heavy-fermion systems: Kondo model and poor man’s RG

Min-Feng Tu

2014-04-22

Heavy-fermion systems: Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6

Min-Feng Tu

2014-04-15

Heavy-fermion systems: Introduction

Min-Feng Tu

2014-03-18

Superconductivity: Iron-based Materials

Tejas Deshpande

2014-02-21

Superconductivity: Cuprates

Tejas Deshpande

2014-02-11

Superconductivity: BCS and Heavy-Fermions

Tejas Deshpande

2014-01-21

Quantum orders and symmetric spin liquids

Shu-Ping Lee

2014-01-14

Non-abelian anyons and parafermions

David Aasen

2013-12-03

Odd-denominator FQHE: K-matrix formalism

Scott Geraedts

2013-11-12

Introduction to the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE)

Nick Hunter-Jones

2013-11-05

Criticality and entanglement in random quantum systems – Part 2

Karthik Seetharam

2013-10-29

Criticality and entanglement in random quantum systems – Part 1

Victor Quito

2013-10-22

Symmetry-protected topological (SPT) orders in interacting bosonic systems

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee

2013-10-08

Correlation effects in two-dimensional topological insulators

Min-Feng Tu

2013-09-24

Correlated quantum phenomena in the strong spin-orbit regime

Tejas Deshpande

2013-09-17

Topology of Semi-metals and Interacting Phases – Part 2

Scott Geraedts

2013-09-08

Topology of Semi-metals and Interacting Phases – Part 1

Victor Quito

2013-06-01

Topological Insulators and Superconductors Review

Tejas Deshpande

2013-05-19

Topological Insulators Review – Part 2

Victor Quito

2013-05-12

Topological Insulators Review – Part 1

Min-Feng Tu

2013-05-05

Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators – Part 3

Scott Geraedts

2013-04-21

Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators – Part 2

Tejas Deshpande

2013-04-14

Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators – Part 1

Shu-Ping Lee

2013-03-07

New directions in the pursuit of Majorana fermions in solid state systems

David Aasen

2013-02-24

Search for Majorana Fermions in Superconductors

Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee

2013-02-17

Introduction to Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Fermions

Tejas Deshpande

2013-02-10

Floquet Topological Insulators

Karthik Seetharam

2013-01-27

Spin-helical transport in normal and superconducting topological insulators

Scott Geraedts

2013-01-20

Three-dimensional Topological Insulators

Hao Chu

2013-01-13

The Quantum Spin Hall Effect

Tejas Deshpande

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